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DEVICE RELATING TO GARMENT FORMERS. APPLICATION mm mm. 1917. RENEWED JULY 19, 1919.

Patented Nov. 11, 1919.

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HARRY SIMONS, or NEW YORK, 11. Y.

DEVICE RELATING TO GARMENT-FORMERS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented NOV. 11, 1919.

Application filed January 2, 1917, Serial No. 140,159. Renewed July 19, 1919. Serial No. 312,109.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY SIMoNs, citizen of the United States, and resident of the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Device Relating to Garment-Formers, of which the. following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment formers and more particularly to flap and welt ma-tchers consisting of a perforated plate having pivoted thereon index pointers which are set at different stripes on the cloth used in making garments so that the device may be applied to the same pattern of cloth and flaps and welts may be cut so as to properly match the balance of the coat or garment, the object of the invention being to accurately and quickly measure the angle of the flap so it may be marked and cut as will be more fully described in the following specification set forth in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the matcher.

Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a view showing the use of the matcher.

The matcher comprises a thin pattern plate 5 of metal, celluloid, card board or similar material and is about twice as long as wide with index fingers 6 and 7 pivoted at a central point and whose ends play in guide ways 8 while the points are free in th slots 9 concentric with the. pivoted point.

End fingers l0 and 11 are pivoted at each.

side of the central points and also have guides 12 and their pivots are exposed in the slots 13.

At the left top corner of the plate 5 are several groups of notches, the same showing the length 0 welts, sack and overcoat pockets respectively, the whole plate being the length of the longest overcoat pocket. At the lower edge notches 17 may be provided and at the ends notches 18 indicate the width of the welt while notches 19 show the depth of the sack coat flaps.

The matcher is operated as shown in Fig. 3 where it is located on a piece of cloth from which a suit is to be made and flaps cut. The top edge of the matcher is adjacent the poc et slit 20 and the fingers 6 and 7 are so positioned that their points touch the vertical stripe 21. The fingers 10 and 11 may also be turned to have their points contact with a horizontal stripe such as 22. I

The matcher is now set to lay out the flaps and is transferred to a piece of cloth of the same pattern and the respective fingers are brought in contact with the vertical and horizontal lines and the upper oblique line'marked and the length of the flap designated, horizontal slots 23 are provided to mark off the welts and slots 24 are made for marking sack flaps.

Whil the drawings show the use of the matcher on plaid goods, it is obvious that it may be used for goods of various patterns and that the marker may be modified or its parts otherwise arranged without depart-' ing from the essential features above described or from the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim as new is 1. In a matcher for flaps, welts and patches, the combination of a perforated pattern plate and index fingers pivoted on the plate and adapted to be set at different angles to coincide with certain details of a figured fabric.

2. In a matcher for flaps, welts and pieces of fabric the combination of a pattern plate, index fingers pivoted thereon and adapted to be set on various details on a figured fabric and to be re-located on a similar fabric.

3. In a matcher for flapsand welts the combination with a pattern plate having perforations of index fingers pivoted on the plate and having their points terminating in the perforations.

4. In a matcher for flaps and welts the combination with a pattern plate having curved slots of index fingers pivoted on the plate and playing in the slots, guides for the fingers, and measuring notches. on the edges of the plate.

Signed at New York, in the county of Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

